[darcs-users] Bounty on the conflict misery bug

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Salvatore Insalaco writes:

 > 2007/8/17, Alexander Staubo <alex at purefiction.net>:
 > > We have patiently been waiting for a fix, but there seems to be
 > > nothing on the horizon.
 > 
 > Actually there is. Jason is working on a Google Summer of Code project
 > about the conflict-handling in Darcs, and some code is already in
 > darcs-unstable (albeit not actually working for "real world" usage).

I've seen no reports that anybody understands it; there's no guarantee
that Jason's work will really speed things up until there's a proof
that what Darcs is trying to do isn't NP-hard (and preferably better
than o(n^2)).

Don't take my word for it, I haven't been paying that close attention,
so maybe there are assurances.  But all I've seen promised is that
people will work on it, not that there is a know solution that will
just take some hard work to implement.